Now that's a lot of tips.

Never compare yourself to another player. Compare yourself to you from yesterday.

“Playing other instruments can help” Me with my guitar and kazoo: *yes*

That is a killer guitar.

"Consistency is key" But is it Major or Minor?

Jimi Hendrix's 'Little Wing' was my long standing goal for many years- used to seem to be such an unachievable goal. His tendencies and flow seemed so alien to me 3 years ago, and now it's my go to thing to play when I pick up my guitar! Though it might sound better on a satin PRS, that thing is sleek...

-Being in quarantine "Not my first choice" Was literally his first choice

You are so awesome!!

1. Subscribe to music is win. 2. Practice 3. Now you’re good at guitar Also #15 was super inspirational for me man. I hope I can do even 1% of what you’ve done.

I think it's important to spend time with your guitar. You dont have to have the tightest and most efficient practicing scedule but just sit down learn a song, learn some theory every day 3/4 of an hour to an hour and you got it.

For me, it was when I quit trying to get better, and just started to have more fun.

Bought a guitar for something to do during quarantine, just need my fingers to toughen up so I can actually put in the practice.

I've been a trainer, teacher, coach and mentor in the areas of personal and professional development for over 30 years now. Within your interpreting, framing and contextualising of these 50 points you have demonstrated a profound sense of wisdom driven by pragmatics. It is said by many that 'knowledge is power', when the truth is 'knowledge applied is power'. This you have demonstrated often and most importantly with humour (as unique as it is sometimes, just ask your wife). There is more here than many will realise at first listening. For your musicianship as well as philosophy to aid us through these strange events, or any events that life throws at us. Just to add over many years this is the first time I've ever left a comment. So good job. This has been an honour and a treasure. Thanks Man

Hendrix would live with his instrument being an extension of his body. He would just wear it and walk around with it on and play during free time. My advice is also #45, take a few day break from guitar, just listen to other music when i do this , for some reason I play stuff I normally wouldn't. Also play other instruments, you can learn techniques and licks and stuff from that and it forces you to play differently. Oh and get a rival, compete with your friends to improve and push each other and learn from each other.Go to music stores and ask to jam with people,especially the older more experienced guys. Its better than watching shredders and wishing you could trade all of your skill just to play that one song, eventually that will change so don't be the next "shredder name" be the next you ;)

“Piano is the ultimate instrument” - top ten anime betrayals

Wait dont touch that skip button This is going to change everything

When I was a freshman a few years ago I took a guitar class and I had to play upside down. *I'm a lefty* after the first semester I was the top of the class then I recieved a left handed tele and it was like I was learning all over again.😂

I thoroughly agree with Rocksmith. I love it and can’t stop playing it. Wanna give you advice on how to get the best sound from the game. Let’s say for example you play the game on a PS4. Using the audio directly from the tv will cause an audio delay from your guitar to what you hear. Use a third party speaker system like surround sound or whatever. Plug the console directly to the speaker and void the audio from the tv. This will almost 100% get rid of the audio delay and give you a better quality sound if you use high quality speakers. Sorry for the long post just really adamant about Rocksmith and wanna help out your future experience with it

Take advantage of those moments when you feel motivated to learn a new piece of music, most milestones in my playing are related to songs that I really wanted to learn. Took a lot of time but it was worth it Also, finishing every practice session with something I really enjoy to play was a game changer and kinda makes me excited for the next practice session

Quarantine and your videos have been a huge help, I'm still just on a squire strat, my birthday hit in April and the only thing i wanted was an MXR distortion pedal. I'm an adult beginner (started in January so I've only had 9 months so far) and at first thought it wasn't even possible. But now I'm at a point I didn't think I'd reach in years, let alone months. Every time I jam with my friend with a killer schecter (masks and sanitizer handy) it feels so natural, like I was always meant for it, watching your videos was what kept me motivated back in January when I started and now their my go to for whenever I'm stuck. Thank you

“Maybe if you’re just learning a ton of Megadeth and Metallica songs and you just wanna be a riff lord” I feel personally attacked

Duder - that is one fine, spanky fiddle!!! When I started playing guitar way back in '81 when I was 13 - you couldn't find anything you wanted on the internet so I just locked myself in "ye 'ole woodshed" with "ye 'old record player" & learned how to play by ear. I really developed my ear over the years in the 'shed & ruined a lot of vinyl (went through 2 Iron Maiden "Piece of Mind" albums alone). It really comes down to discipline & how much you really love playing music. KISS says it well in "God Gave Rock n Roll To You", "....you can work real hard or just fantasize 'cause it's never too late to work 9 to 5". Keep doing the good stuff!!!🤘😁🤘

About that keyboard tip - when I was in music school, the theory classroom always had a picture of keyboard hanging on the wall. It was like a periodic table of elements on a chemistry class or a map on a geography class. Everything was explained on a keyboard, and everybody was familiar with a keyboard, regardless of which instrument they played. Getting familiar with a keyboard is a great way to familiarize yourself with the relationships between the notes (intervals, chords, scales) because keyboard is so nicely and logically laid out.

I went from electric to classical and never looked back. Highly recommend it. I'm going to go back to electric but I ended up loving classical guitar!

one thing that helped me was learning bohemian rhapsody, it was a challenge but before I did I spent most of my time noodling, playing old stuff that's too easy and not going anywhere. I also used to look at videos like this with a fixed mindset where when he plays I think 'i will never be able to do that' but after learning the solo for bohemian it has helped me so much as it helped me with hammer-ons and bends a lot, it's just pushing yourself and challenging yourself to do more because if you don't you will never improve and you also need to remember everybody was you at some point, music is win was, Brian May was, Hendrix was like pick one and at some point, they were sat just like you finding things hard with the guitar. You just need to keep expanding and pushing the boundaries as that is the only way to progress

Rocksmith really is awesome, it's the reason I can play bass. (still haven't tried to tackle guitar yet) It's really great and you can learn pretty much any big song from your favorite artist and it really motivates you to learn more and have fun doing it. Finger > Pick

When I started using my pinky finger more it felt like I was playing guitar wrong for years

My BASS tutor recommended to always start and finish practicing with a favourite song. You feel good when you put your guitar down and look forward to picking it up again.

Your videos are letting me not to give up and keep on grinding. Never stop doing the good work.

i started playing drums when I was 8 and just recently picked up a guitar when I was about 14 and I feel like the rhythm aspect of drums definitely carried over to guitar

One tip that gave me more awareness of the "feeling" when playing: Improvise normally, but in the first 3 seconds hit the strings hard, and in the next 3 seconds afterwards hit it lightly. Go back and forth hitting it hard then lightly, 3 secs each, feel the motion. Being harsh in the 3 seconds and delicate in the next 3

13:31 The great shawn lane said that this was his favorite way to practice...he would play an insanely hard line at full tempo first instead of starting slow because he said that his brain would only hear it slow and block it from getting to full speed.

What am i doing here. I play bass

Just found you on KZfaq, I got a spark 40 and I'm browsing to get better. You're channel really helps

After all, no one knows you better than yourself! Awesome work as always! I was actually wondering, can you make another video where you ranked guitarists that people recommended to you on social media? I loved the one back in 2017!

I must have been doing business with American Musical for at least 15 years now and can confirm they are great to do business with. No questions asked returns, super fast shipping and decent inventory. If they stock it, that's likely where I'm buying.

I'm holding you to that Rocksmith statement, I personally learned a lot about jamming and playing with a band from Rocksmith when I didn't actually know other musicians. Like so our boy see's?

The buying a new guitar one is a really valid point. I have numerous ones, not because I wanted to buy one to sound better but purely I didn't want to retune a guitar to play a new song, having to retune would just be a ball ache especially if I was last playing in standard and now drop b 🙃

I am a great magician. 4:45 Your clothes are white! 5:05 Your clothes are green! Haha! Now I shall be known by the name of Betty.

Talking about setting yourself lofty goals,...I'm in the middle of learning the Hendrix version of All Along The Watchtower. I find that recording myself each time I'm learning a new part, really helps in improving my technique. It's a lot more difficult to make a fair judgement on my playing while I'm actually playing. Listening to yourself on the recording afterwards really helps you to locate your weak spots and address them later.

What I did to get super comfortable with frets and playing was learning slayer on a shitty squire with a 1/3 in action my fingers were literally black but worth it

I love that Tyler flipped the guitar over and tried playing it left handed because I had the exact thought to try that the other week and realized how effortless making both sound and music has become compared to the beginning

I think what the guy meant with "distancing yourself with the guitar community" is that 90% of the time is just guys in their 50s arguing about wood.

9:54 oh my goodness. I always have my guitar on a stand between me and my dresser where my TV is. I do this all the time. Especially when I'm watching KZfaq.

When I bought my strat I became a much better player because the new sound that the strat gave me opened me up to different styles of music.

5:54 Rocksmith is absolutely amazing, please make a series on this! I have learned so much from this game and it has taught me many songs, have over 200 hours in it so far and have to say it has taught me faster than any other learning method I have tried. It has many ways of teaching you from a vast array of songs to learn, to arcade mini games which can teach you things such as scales, there is a whole tutorial section with distinct levels of difficulty, a robust band jamming tool where you select many instruments, styles of music, Tempo etc and will play as hard as you play. There is also many guitar effects and a complete tone designer. Multiplayer so you and your wife or friend can jam along with you as lead or rhythm. 10/10 would recommend

1:15 me when I make a mistake during a show

Tip 18 is legit. If you struggle with something, making it even harder for yourself will make it feel a lot easier when you go back to how you normally do it.

2 mths ago i knew maybe 10 chords just to write my music....in 60 days, at 10/12 hrs 7 days a week im killing it! i couldnt get through a scale without fumbling couldnt bend a string. my fingers are flying around my guitars like lighting! very happy

As soon as this quarantine is over am trying out a prs i really love the way they look..had my heart set on a les paul..but the blue hollow body is just beautiful..so is that satin

Rocksmith is amazing and it's worth it even just for the song catalog.

I started out on drums. My mom put a stop to that though and I ended up with an electric guitar for Christmas when I was in fifth grade or so. Now I jump on my friends drum set every now and then, just to affirm that I have no business playing drums. lol although I believe in the short time I spent with drums helped my timing awareness. Over the years my timing has improved and is a elemental part of my style and such. Recently I am trying to learn the violin and the mandolin and want to learn the piano too.

i started playing the guitar with a quarter and my speed improved when alternate picking with a regular pick

Watching this video makes me feel like it’s actually possible to get somewhere. I’m the type of person who’s very easily overwhelmed and who’s perspective is very easily clouded up, like a fungus is constantly growing on my brain making me feel stagnant, unorganized and incapable, but hearing some of these things kinda cleans all that dirt off of my brain. Nowadays it’s easy to look at all the different avenues to go down and all the different things to practice and how to practice them and all the things you see everywhere that you wish you could do but just can’t imagine yourself doing and then just say to yourself, “I give up”, but my last string of hope and motivation to one day hopefully be among the people I admire in terms of skill resides in this video. Thank you Tyler 😎

The best tip I've ever received as a guitar player is simple: Tap your feet. It helped me tremendously with keeping time when I first started playing.

That tip you mentioned where you flipped over your guitar is a really good one, I do that a lot and it's crazy how far I've come even though I still don't consider myself a guitarist. And also, the thing you said where piano translates to guitar is spot on, I'm primarily a pianist but those skills really translated to guitar beautifully. Specifically with the musicality and improvisation. Pretty much everything you said here is spot on and makes for great advice for new guitarists, well done!

Practice effectively and consistently

Let’s help Tyler get to 1 million! He’s so close and he deserves it!

8:04 also assumes the posibility of choosing between different guitars

Recording yr practice is a good tip...it's like looking back at yr self in the mirror. Last time I looked, l had left my fly open. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. You rate well above the fray. Keep teaching us the guitar stuff. Wisdom will cometh. its a certainty.

1:30 “Proclivity” ... Thats a good word.

Looking back at where you started is such good advice

I’m 15 and I bought this guitar with my own money. This is gorgeous. It’s coming Wednesday. Dang they are fast.

Being a cello player helped me a lot. I've been playing it since 3rd grade and all that time that I spent trying to get faster and faster at cello really helped me out when i got into guitar in terms of finger strength and endurance.

I can’t lie I clicked off this vid on tip 30 and started playing guitar. Thanks and sorry 😂

I think that the guitar community is awesome. I learn so much from other people and feel really inspired to get better.

Great vid 👍🏽

the piano one is so good. I know a little piano and it has helped me think about the fretboard in a great way

Just a quick question before I watch the video. Is one of the tips "practice"?

This has been a very helpful 40 minutes. There are things I didn't know and things I knew but didn't know that I already knew them but I did know them. You know? All kidding aside, this is essential listening. Thank you, Tyler.

Can you do a video “Habits of Brian May” feel like there’s a lot to cover

When I first started playing guitar, I chose songs with very advanced rhythm sections. "One" by Metallica was one of the first 30 songs I learned. It's such a long song that I actually gained new guitar skills as I learned it. And I was great at it on Guitar Hero 3. So I HAD to play it IRL. The single note stuff in the intro was perfect for me starting out. I learned a fairly complex single note rhythm section for the verses. Power chords in the chorus were nice and easy but sounded sick. The clean fill solos were a step up and took more time to master than anything else yet. The bridge with the 7 strum machine gun chugga parts was extremely important in learning to control tremolo picking and palm muting and ending on an unmuted note. That solo took me quite a bit to master, but one day before I'd even been playing for 1.5 years, I could play it well enough for my OCD ass to be satisfied. Putting it all together to show off for my best friend who was bad at guitar but got me introduced was one of the greatest feelings I'd ever had as a teenager. ❤

What guitar do you recomend for an intermediate guitar player? (would be my second guitar) I have economies, so i could pay like 1000-1600 $. What's your opinion? Cheers from Romania! Your channel inspired and keeps inspiring me! Thanks!

Here’s a tip that helped me: I write down all the melodies/songs that I learn in a little tab book(I know I know) and every couple weeks I’ll go back to the first page and refresh my memory and just being able to look at the page of numbers and be like “oh so it’s this” then play it after a couple practice rounds is really good to show just how far you’ve progressed

To get great finger strength play bass

recently I goyt stuck in a rut with guitar and picked up bass and it allowed me to comeback with a fresh mind for guitar.

“AW YOU RIFFED ALL OVER YOUR SELF” -Daniel Thrasher

Already commented, but this is one of my favorite video of all time, it gave me a lot of motivation to continue playing guitar, after a 10 years hiatus.

this is not a joke but I started playing bass and after a while of playing only bass, I was way better at guitar than I was before

When I was beginning to make some progress in my guitar playing I learned the acoustic guitar parts from Jethro Tull's 'Thick as a Brick' and whenever I want to time travel to my "dim and distant" past I still play those parts to this day.

I forgot to buy strings before quarantine

I've been learning guitar as my 3rd instrument over all, but it's my first stringed instrument. I've found my knowledge of theory and playing I developed playing brass has made the learning process for guitar very smooth.

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I started guitar in december and learning it is easy in quarantine.

1:52 you're breaking your cable! O:

Back to taking a break tip. When I'm learning something new and it's not quite going well, like a new riff, or a cord. Sometimes moving on to something else, or taking a day off from it helps me. When I get back to it, it just seems easier the second time around.

i like how you have a t-shirt under a polo.

Playing guitar is like the only thing I’ve been doing for the last three weeks, and today I had a lesson on harmonics with my instructor on zoom. Learned a lot of stuff lately with nothing to do

I mainly smack my head with music.

I staryed playing Violin then Piano then bass and guitar. Learning violin helped me alot while i played guitar.

*tip 51: play the bass*

Hey Tyler, I realized that you are really close to the million subs! I cannot believe it, I subscribed to your channel when we were only 90k or something, I'm really proud of you and the effort you made with your channel. Congrats dude!!

I've always wanted a guitar that's over 500$

How does this guy not have a signature PRS by now

January 5th 2021.. UK is back in lockdown.. again 😂 but I started taking guitar more seriously again recently so this is a great time to see this video

For me, having music I was passionate about was helpful so that I had an image of the musicians I wanted to be like and the type of music I aspired to one day be able to play. The other thing was to actually shell out a little extra cash on my guitar because nothing kills the passion like a crappy guitar to learn on. My first guitar was an old fender starcaster acoustic, which, while typically an alright line of guitars, this one had the most obnoxious edges on the frets that I cut my hands on more than one time, and it made me give up on it a few times. I came back with a new passion as I got more into the music I listened to and finally decided to get a telecaster on sale for around the high $300 range, and I loved it. Never stopped learning and practicing after I got it.

So true. Playing the piano at age 25 helped me get more feel on my older bass guitar that just sat in the corner of my room collecting dust.

similar to #45, but about 10 years ago I was practicing everyday until I got tendinitis and that sucked so bad. After getting over that, I changed my routine to where I practice 6 days a week (usually an hour a day depending on the day) and have one day a week where I don't touch a guitar. Most weeks, that is Saturday for a few reasons (spend uninterrupted time with the girlfriend, go out and travel, etc....). Have had zero issues with injury and motivation since adopting that 6 day a week practice schedule. Also tied into this is TRAVEL! Really hard to be inspired if all you do is stay at home all the time (obviously after quarantine is over). Go experience life and more often than not, something will inspire you.

Being stuck in quarantine is the reason i went to AMS and bought myself my first guitar. First guitar i got when i was 11, now i'm an adult and being stuck inside sucks but playing some metal helps

Please answer me Who actually goes out of their way to dislike helpful videos? It has to be yt bots bcuz i cant imagine anyone actually being that sad. Rock on Tyler 🤘🤘